Word: worsens
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...have enough. Today the world has more capital funds for investment than ever be fore. Yet there is disturbing evidence that capital is not being created fast enough to meet the rising volume of legitimate needs. Capital is scarce and costly almost every where, and the global shortage will worsen unless two basic remedial steps are taken. First, ways must be found to develop more funds. Second, the "flow" or distribution of capital has to be sped up and improved...
...programs among the old-line departments. Unless the administration accedes, Rep. Goodell (R.N.Y) recently warned, they "may well kill off the whole thing." OEO has failed in these first three years to perform many of its most important tasks, but sacrificing the program to the Departments will only worsen the situation. HEW will be no more successful in coordinating the activities of other Departments and may not even feel the responsibility to do so. Eliminating OEO, officials lament, will mean the end of a period of "trying, testing, and learning...
Last week, in a show of strength that can only worsen Lyndon Johnson's al ready battered popularity in the South, the Department of Health, Education and Welfare decided to cut off all fed eral funds from six segregated school districts in Arkansas, Mississippi and South Carolina, bringing to 37 the number deprived of financial assistance in Old Confederacy states. It also is terminating aid, mostly student-loan and construction funds, to South Carolina's Baptist-run Anderson College, making it the first institution of higher learning to have its federal funds...
...hospitalized at Walter Reed. Doctors at first thought that she had picked up the drug-resistant malaria that has reached almost epidemic proportions in Viet Nam. Later, they suspected she might have cancer. But an exploratory operation uncovered nothing, and meanwhile her condition continued to worsen. She developed uremic poisoning and began to hemorrhage internally. Finally, the doctors surmised that she had a rare tropical ailment called leishmaniasis, in which protozoa from the bite of a sandfly enter the bloodstream and attack the liver and spleen. As a rule, few people die of the disease if they are properly treated...
...their relations with Red China worsen, the Russians are stepping up their economic contacts with the non-Communist world. Soviet-Japanese trade, for example, has nearly tripled in the past five years, now runs at $400 million annually, a volume 10% greater than Japan's trade with Britain. Last week, after prolonged negotiations, a four-man team of Soviet aviation experts stood by in Tokyo, ready to initial an agreement establishing the first commercial air service between Moscow and Tokyo, by way of Siberia...